Azure Policy
Governance engine that audits, denies or remediates resources against assigned rules.
- Provider
- azure
- Kind
- Policy engine
- Category
- Operations
| property | type | values | required | kind default | this component |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| definitionVersionMode | enum | latest-major | pinned-minor | no | latest-major | inherited |
| effect | enum | audit | deny | modify | deploy-if-not-exists | no | — | inherited |
| encryptedAtRest | boolean | — | no | true | inherited |
| enforcementMode | enum | enforced | disabled | no | — | ▸ enforced |
| evaluationCycleHours | integer | — | no | 24 | inherited |
| managed | boolean | — | no | false | ▸ true |
| maxAssignmentsPerScope | integer | — | no | 200 | inherited |
| maxDefinitionsPerScope | integer | — | no | 500 | inherited |
| policyCount | integer | — | no | — | inherited |
| remediation | boolean | — | no | false | inherited |
| scope | enum | resource | group | account | organization | no | — | inherited |
Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.
No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.
nodes:
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and 16 more → Policy engine page# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json # Azure Policy: evaluates resources against business rules and applies an effect at a management # group, subscription, resource group or resource scope. "Overview of Azure Policy": the standard # compliance evaluation cycle occurs once every 24 hours, all Azure Policy data and objects are # encrypted at rest, and a scope holds at most 500 policy definitions and 200 assignments. "Details # of the policy assignment structure": when enforcementMode is not specified, Default is used. schemaVersion: "1" type: "component" id: "azure-policy" kind: "policy-engine" provider: "azure" docs: "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/policy/overview" defaults: managed: true enforcementMode: "enforced" properties: evaluationCycleHours: type: "integer" default: 24 definitionVersionMode: type: "enum" values: ["latest-major", "pinned-minor"] default: "latest-major" encryptedAtRest: type: "boolean" default: true maxDefinitionsPerScope: type: "integer" default: 500 maxAssignmentsPerScope: type: "integer" default: 200